2012 LPGA*USGA Girls Golf Team Championship Rules Exam

Thank you for your interest in participating in the 2012 LPGA*USGA Girls Golf Team Championship!

Entries for the LPGA*USGA Girls Golf Team Championship are open to female amateur golfers ages 8 – 17 who are, or have been registered members in good standing with LPGA-USGA Girls Golf for at least two years. Eligible applicants must: complete the mandatory Rules exam, have been recommended by their Site Director, and have a current USGA Handicap Index.

Please complete the following Rules Exam by no later than 5:00 pm EST on Friday, April 6, 2012.

2. The game of golf consists of playing a ball with a club from the teeing ground into the hole by a stroke or successive strokes in accordance with the Rules?
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True

False

This is a required question

3. An obstruction is something artificial like a sprinkler head or a bunker rake.
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True

False

This is a required question

4. Which is correct regarding ground under repair?
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A. Deep cracks in the earth are not automatically ground under repair

B. A tree stump is always ground under repair

This is a required question

5. Which of the following is correct, a ball is out of bounds when:
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A. All of it lies out of bounds.

B. Any part of it lies out of bounds

This is a required question

6. When starting a hole in stroke play, a player may play from outside the teeing ground without penalty?
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True

False

This is a required question

7. A player plays a stroke and it comes to rest in the middle of the fairway. When she gets to her ball she see a clump of mud on the side of it. May she pick up her ball and clean it without a penalty?
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Yes

No

This is a required question

8. May a player have the flagstick attended for her when her ball is not on the putting green?
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Yes

No

This is a required question

9. One of the one penalty stroke options under the Water Hazard Rule (Rule 26) is to proceed under the stroke and distance provision by playing a ball as nearly as possible at the spot from which the original ball was last played.
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True

False

This is a required question

10. Before leaving a bunker, players should carefully fill up and smooth over all holes and footprints made by them and any nearby made by others.
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